Jared Kushner

And ultimately, we were able to get it together.

And it was an amazing thing.

We ended up getting 87 votes in the Senate.

This happened for me at a time while the Russia investigation stuff was still happening.

A new chief of staff came in, John Kelly.

He basically marginalized me and the operations.

So I had kind of less day-to-day responsibilities in the White House.

And so for me, this effort became one of my full-time efforts along with negotiating the Mexico trade deal and along with the Middle East efforts.

And the reason why that was great was because it didn't have a lot of support from the Republican caucus originally, and people thought there was no way it would happen.

So I really was able to be the chief executive officer

the middle executive, the low executive, the intern.

And through that process, I really got an education on how Congress works, on how to pass legislation.

I was negotiating texts.

I was negotiating back and forth.

And I built a lot of trust.

Again, I would deal with, whether it's Hakeem Jeffries or Cedric Richmond, we built a lot of trust.

We'd speak three times a day.

These guys had my back.

The ACLU, again, I never thought they were suing our administration every day or every other day on something.

But for whatever reason, we built trust and we were able to work together.